Country size comparison
compared to
Virginia is about 10 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 9.95% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.8 million more people live in Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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